Couple of takeaways. First, obviously, the irony is too rich. But more seriously this shows how the usual state method of establishing standards leads to the unteachable hash we see in many places now. Common Core’s development process was a helpful buffer against that.

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and an all-out effort by teachers who routinely work 12 hours a day, six days a week, and take calls from students until 9:30 every night.

As soon as we get a single metric of accuracy for all of the BS slingers in the blogospehre this country is going nowhere.

Mr. R, everyone knows that opinion pieces and your line of work are entirely unaccountable. Opinions take months to check and years for their impact to be felt. There is no feedback loop that acts rapidly enough to FIND THE LIARS.

And so our country is pushed to the brink of failure by the torrent of lame ideas and even more unreliable data. And this frenzy of bad thinking is stoked by journalists. These goof balls were the hangers-on at university, and the leeches who just stood around the rest of us studying science and mathematics.

And now that these moochers skulk around the internet repeating reams of unsubstantiated horse manure the problem is even more of a national security threat.

I challenge you and Ms. Koop to work that schedule.

I dare you. Man up, and do it. That schedule is more arduous than what my nuclear sailors worked. And they make nearly twice what you want to pay a teacher.

The tide is turning already against the sheer nuttiness of your reform movement. It is a religion.

The war is over for teachers. They lost. They have been culturally demoted. The damage that this has done to education in this country will not be seen for at least ten years. And by that time, Rotherham will have moved on to another crisis and this blog will be gone. There will absolutely no way to hold any of the education leadership accountable.

They have only two choices: Stay or get out.

No real leader ever thought that he or she could achieve good results when his or her subordinates were thinking of only those two options.

Love, love, love the Mess in Tex. Who could have imagined? Maybe the rest of the country will finally cut Texas loose from its dominance in the text and curriculum department. Come to think of it, just go all the way with secession–it’s what Perry wants. But we keep NASA HQ and move it to Colorado.

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